Anonymous wrote:I meant the photo (which PP loved) portrayed her as coy.

Her look is a combination of demure and confident. She does look coy, but if you think about who they are, who she is and what the circumstances are, you'd realize that's not it.

Anonymous wrote:I meant the photo (which PP loved) portrayed her as coy.

NP. Yes, I see that. And I think it's a very common look/act for Japanese women -- the head down but looking up, mouth closed but with a small smile, hands folded in lap.

Women are supposed to appear meek and submissive. I know women there who still cover their mouths when they laugh (giggle) because opening their mouth and showing teeth is not considered attractive.

It's almost funny how much Japanese society secretly hates Korea and Koreans. With the Netflix show Squid Game being so popular, one of the biggest headlines in Japan recently was basically someone hypothesizing that it was all bots and/or manipulated data by Koreans to make the show successful.

There's an entire genre of literature in Japan that is dedicated to "anti-Korean" ideology. You walk into most bookstores in Japan, and there's an anti-Korean section. I'm not even exaggerating.

That said, I don't think all of the animus towards Kei Komuro is because of his rumored Korean ethnicity. I think it's a whole avalanche of things.

I meant the photo (which PP loved) portrayed her as coy.

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Anonymous wrote:Such grace under pressure and she appears to have found a real prince. The man moved halfway across the world to secure a livelihood for both of them and came back to marry her.

I love this picture of them. The way he looks at her. Oooh.

The wat they look at each other!❤❤🤗

But (and this is not about her personally), there is a coy girl thing going on...that people really seem to like.

No wonder they don't think women can head up the royal family, traditon socializes them to be meek and compliant.

Grown women there love MISS KITTY. And look at what this leads to:

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/3/8/sexual-assault-in-japan-every-girl-was-a-victim

What coy thing? She is a highly educated woman, with an independent career, who knows what she wants and stood by her choice with incredible poise and dignity.

I’m also wondering what’s behind that comment. I think the grace under public pressure and the ability of this polished woman to make decisions about her well-being and destiny that are true to herself despite family pressures and even public protests is the opposite of what I would call “coy”.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of English media are also not reporting (I wonder why?) that a big reason why Kei Komuro was reviled by the Japanese public is because there were rumors that his family has Korean ancestry. Japan is still deeply, deeply racist against Koreans and ethnic Koreans.

Truly shameful.

I’ve never seen that. How do they not know if the guy she’s been dating for ten years has foreign ancestors or not?

They track your family ancestry through your family registrar. Did you know Japan has its own caste of “untouchables” that are shunned by society. You can never escape it due to your family registrar and name.

Holy crap no I did not. Well Kei having Korean ancestry explains the level of animosity that I was detecting and for the life of me had no idea where it was coming from since he was born and raised in Japan and speaks Japanese.

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Anonymous wrote:Look on the bright side. Thanks to a couple of trailblazers this young couple need never lack for money. They’ll always have Oprah’s couch.

Your bitterness is glorious, some many occupants living in your head rent-free.

Looks like your sense of humor is as miserable as you are.

Anonymous wrote:Lots of English media are also not reporting (I wonder why?) that a big reason why Kei Komuro was reviled by the Japanese public is because there were rumors that his family has Korean ancestry. Japan is still deeply, deeply racist against Koreans and ethnic Koreans.

Truly shameful.

I appreciate your post. The protests and hatred seemed so disconnected to anything that I could understand. I think the English and American media have their own issues with how they often report and don’t report on racism and discrimination. The British press would have to face the all too close parallels with the racism that their own Royal Family handled less than wonderfully, and their own press handled abysmally. The US press would have to have writers and editors capable of an uncommon amount of nuance when writing about cultural issues in a historical context. We don’t do this well when discussing the US, let alone when discussing other countries and cultures.

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Anonymous wrote:Such grace under pressure and she appears to have found a real prince. The man moved halfway across the world to secure a livelihood for both of them and came back to marry her.

I love this picture of them. The way he looks at her. Oooh.

The wat they look at each other!❤❤🤗

But (and this is not about her personally), there is a coy girl thing going on...that people really seem to like.

No wonder they don't think women can head up the royal family, traditon socializes them to be meek and compliant.

Grown women there love MISS KITTY. And look at what this leads to:

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/3/8/sexual-assault-in-japan-every-girl-was-a-victim

What coy thing? She is a highly educated woman, with an independent career, who knows what she wants and stood by her choice with incredible poise and dignity.

Anonymous wrote:Look on the bright side. Thanks to a couple of trailblazers this young couple need never lack for money. They’ll always have Oprah’s couch.

Your bitterness is glorious, some many occupants living in your head rent-free.

*Hello Kitty (not Miss Kitty).

Well, naturalized citizens in the US (like my daughter who was adopted as a baby) still cannot be president in the United States. So it does not surprise me that a more traditional and homogenous culture like Japan would frown (rather than embrace) a transplanted family member.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of English media are also not reporting (I wonder why?) that a big reason why Kei Komuro was reviled by the Japanese public is because there were rumors that his family has Korean ancestry. Japan is still deeply, deeply racist against Koreans and ethnic Koreans.

Truly shameful.

I’ve never seen that. How do they not know if the guy she’s been dating for ten years has foreign ancestors or not?

They track your family ancestry through your family registrar. Did you know Japan has its own caste of “untouchables” that are shunned by society. You can never escape it due to your family registrar and name.

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Anonymous wrote:Such grace under pressure and she appears to have found a real prince. The man moved halfway across the world to secure a livelihood for both of them and came back to marry her.

I love this picture of them. The way he looks at her. Oooh.

The wat they look at each other!❤❤🤗

But (and this is not about her personally), there is a coy girl thing going on...that people really seem to like.

No wonder they don't think women can head up the royal family, traditon socializes them to be meek and compliant.

Grown women there love MISS KITTY. And look at what this leads to:

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/3/8/sexual-assault-in-japan-every-girl-was-a-victim

It’s Hello Kitty. Liking cute things is not related to being assaulted by creepy men who assault children.

Anonymous wrote:Lots of English media are also not reporting (I wonder why?) that a big reason why Kei Komuro was reviled by the Japanese public is because there were rumors that his family has Korean ancestry. Japan is still deeply, deeply racist against Koreans and ethnic Koreans.

Truly shameful.

I’ve never seen that. How do they not know if the guy she’s been dating for ten years has foreign ancestors or not?